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Re: Re: FrameLabel-type axes labels without setting Frame->True

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• Subject: [mg75653] Re: [mg75645] Re: FrameLabel-type axes labels without setting Frame->True
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 05:44:19 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Of course lose that semi-colon at the end of the In[28] expression if 
you want to see anything!

An old, pre-6.0 habit to unlearn: suppressing result "-Graphics-" output 
by terminating graphics statements with semi-colons.

dimitris wrote:
> This setting of Frame option was undocumentated until now.
> (search in my archives for relevant questions of mine).
> 
> But it is well documentated in the new version. See here
> 
> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Frame.html
> 
> Here are all possible combinations
> 
> In[20]:=
> frs = Tuples[{True, False}, 4]
> 
> Out[20]=
> {{True, True, True, True}, {True, True, True, False}, {True, True,
> False, True}, {True, True, False, False},
>   {True, False, True, True}, {True, False, True, False}, {True, False,
> False, True}, {True, False, False, False},
>   {False, True, True, True}, {False, True, True, False}, {False, True,
> False, True}, {False, True, False, False},
>   {False, False, True, True}, {False, False, True, False}, {False,
> False, False, True}, {False, False, False, False}}
> 
> And here are the respective graphs.
> 
> In[28]:=
> (Plot[x, {x, -2, 2}, Axes -> False, PlotStyle -> Thickness[0.01],
> Frame -> #1, PlotLabel -> ToString[#1]] & ) /@ frs;
> 
> Cheers
> Dimitris
> 
> 
> =CF/=C7 Andrew Moylan =DD=E3=F1=E1=F8=E5:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When plotting, I usually want my axes labels placed where FrameLabel-
>>> {"x", "y"} puts them (underneath the plot for the x-axis label, and
>> written vertically to the left of the plot for the y-axis label). But
>> sometimes I don't want a rectangular frame around my plot, which is
>> what I get when I use Frame->True.
>>
>> What's the best way to have FrameLabel-style axes labels while still
>> having regular old axes instead of a rectangular frame?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew
> 
> 

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  • Re: FrameLabel-type axes labels without setting Frame->True
    • From: dimitris <dimmechan@yahoo.com>